- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (18 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340786299
- ISBN-13: 978-0340786291
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 376,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Most people think of life as either something that happens to them or as something which they have to bend to their will. Life in short is seen as a series of problems requiring solutions. As a result people spend much of their lives either in escape activities or driving themselves to achieve, often both at the same time.
But life becomes qualitatively different when we see it as a theatre in which we decide what is going to happen and then let it happen in the way that an artist will allow his or her creation to appear.
This book is an example of the message that it teaches. Forster records methodically how he himself stopped struggling to work against his own feelings and to let his life happen. Exciting and inspiring, his own story with accompanying exercises for the reader prove the life-changing fact - that when we give priority to the workings of our unconscious minds we can trust them not to let us down.
But life becomes qualitatively different when we see it as a theatre in which we decide what is going to happen and then let it happen in the way that an artist will allow his or her creation to appear.
This book is an example of the message that it teaches. Forster records methodically how he himself stopped struggling to work against his own feelings and to let his life happen. Exciting and inspiring, his own story with accompanying exercises for the reader prove the life-changing fact - that when we give priority to the workings of our unconscious minds we can trust them not to let us down.
About the Author
Mark Forster is full-time life coach. He frequently runs workshops and seminars specialising in time management.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I have read a plethora of self help books, mainly for research purposes and would agree with some of the reviews that this book won't suit everybody. However,you have to give the author credit for doing something different and giving people the tools to be pulled towards their goal rather than just pushing all the time. His style of writing is sometimes difficult to read and if you want to speed read this book you will struggle. If you are a motivated person who wants some good ideas on visualisation and questioning your motives in life then this book is for you,. If you want a step by step guide that will will push you towards your goals in a concious and well guided way then this won't suit.
I enjoyed the book and have been employing some of his techniques with some success, I am not drifting but actively pulling myself towards my goal. My only fear is that if you are a bit of a drifter you could mis-use his techniques and never get anywhere.
Overall a good read with ideas that do make you think about what you are doing and why you are doing it.
I enjoyed the book and have been employing some of his techniques with some success, I am not drifting but actively pulling myself towards my goal. My only fear is that if you are a bit of a drifter you could mis-use his techniques and never get anywhere.
Overall a good read with ideas that do make you think about what you are doing and why you are doing it.
33 of 35 people found the following review helpful
When I became self-employed, I read most of the leading self-help books. All of them had something interesting to say and helped me orientate myself. However, I felt there was something missing in all of them. I didn't feel I really needed to know how to plan out the tasks that I needed to achieve my goals, I didn't want to assess the messages I had unconsciously absorbed from my primary school teacher, I wanted to know how to 'want' to do the things I needed to do, instead of feeling guilty, procrastinating or feeling overwhelmed.
I picked Forster's book because I read his first time management work. I implemented his daily 'what's better' list, I began a self-coaching dialogue, wrote out my future vision and began the goal achievement method with a short term goal that was seriously behind schedule. The results were astounding.
Within the first three days, through his methods, I realised that my stasis was caused by three main mental 'glitches', that I did an extraordinary number of tasks a day and then forgot how much I had done, that my confusion was caused by my mind not being able to cope with the amount of data I threw at it without a proper 'mental filing' protocol.
During the weeks that followed, I discovered more about myself than I had in the previous six years. I finished a major project in half the allotted time, I finally organised a holiday for the first time in 5 years, I wrote over 10K words a day, I began to go swimming everyday and I didn't feel like all this was any effort at all. I felt exhilarated, my energy levels were bionic. The speed at which I progressed was so fast, I could feel the wind in my hair. My partner started calling me 'Supergirl'.
I think Mark's key idea is the notion of narrative as a focusing tool for your mind. He asks you to live through 'story' techniques, constantly creating and revising towards your future vision, your grand narrative. This worked brilliantly for me. For the first time in my life, I wanted to do things, I lived through doing what I felt like doing and everything got done, even the ironing.
I heartily recomend his book. It has changed my life and I can't wait to see how it changes my future.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
I was very sceptical indeed. I have read many self-help books that promised to change my life. But this book was very different, in style and in method. And it sounded like fun.
So I tried it. And it worked!
I created a vision that I guessed would take five or six years to achieve and began a dialog with my future successful self.
Just six months later I had to re-write my future vision - because most of my previous goals were already achieved! Since then I have continued to achieve major life goals with this method.
The approach seemed to provide me with a gentle but powerful incentive to keep focused and motivated to attain my dream - even taking setbacks and upsets in my stride. In the past I had been great at planning, dreaming and scheming - but found it hard to keep up momentum and motivation and almost impossible to take action. These dialogs with my future self seemed to effortlessly overcome those tendencies.
In a way it was the opposite of getting in touch with my inner child - I got in touch instead with my inner wiser older loving guru! One that knew my strengths and weaknesses. One that was loving but firm and tolerant of my defects. One that encouraged me to see the progress rather than the failures. Mark has hit on a lovely magical way to let me coach myself to success.
Now I'm back to buy more copies to give as gifts to my friends.
This may not be for everyone - NLP 'experts' will cringe at some of the steps since it does not follow their specific methodology for visualisation and one can find many shortcomings with the format and content of the work as pointed out by previous reviewers - but it worked for me despite my strong scepticism.
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Published on 6 Feb 2010 by Carleen B. Layne
Unusual style, but a gripping and intriguing read containing good...
This book is written in admittedly a quite different style from Mark Forster's others, and I can see why some reviewers disliked this, but I personally very much enjoyed it. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2007 by A. Luke
Read the poor reviews and save some hard earned cash
I bought this book because (a) it's cheap (b) I'm a sucker for this kind of book (read hundreds) and (c) the positive reviews. Thing is, I really wish I'd saved my money. Read more
Published on 26 July 2006 by Baz
Disappointing
I bought this after reading "Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play" by the same author, a book that gave great tips and was extremely helpful when organising a hectic... Read more
Published on 7 May 2005
Goal Getting with Ease!
I read this book in about 2 days! A really well written piece of work! I'm at a time in my life right now where the traditional approach to goal setting just has not been working... Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2004 by PureSymmetry
An Exhumation of a Book
The author of this book APPEARS to start out by setting himself various challenges designed to take his life to "a whole new level".
Uh Oh! Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2003 by Karl
Please write more books Mark but not using this style!
I loved Mark Forster's first book and I think this second one has a lot to say but sadly, the wisdom often gets lost in the layout. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2003 by Ms. L. J. Branch
A book for the only expert on your life there is - yourself
I found "How to make your dreams come true" a very unusual and inspiring self help book. Whereas most other self help books promise enlightment in twelve steps and make... Read more
Published on 30 July 2002 by Nadja Hebenstreit
Life changing ways to realise dreams!
I read Get Everything Done first and was hooked! Mark Forster's techniques are inspiring and life changing. Read more
Published on 25 July 2002
What a waste of time
The central plank of this book is a "dialogue" between the author and his "future self" (and for a short while with his "future self's" "future... Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2002
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